jacks-GTB wrote:keep up the good work matt
stop playing beer pong
A few beers is what I need right now!
Wednesday night some lowlife gutter trash fuckwit asshole(s) stole my Astra turbo from my driveway while a massive wind storm raged. With the child seat in it, and my wallet (ok I'm an idiot, but fucking hell). I noticed this when I went to drive to work in the morning. I spent about 2 hours on the phone with police/bank/insurance and then worked from home. We also got a call from the hospital that a cancellation spot had opened up for our foster son to do a sleep study that night. The usual wait is 6 months, and this was one day after we'd been put on the cancellation list (at the top, as his issues are pretty bad). We made some calls and our awesome foster care agency was able to lend us a van to get to the hospital and get around for a couple of days (until Sunday). I also had multiple people report to me (after posting about it on facebook) seeing a blue astra turbo at illegal street events that looked line mine and was driving very dangerously.
I took my wife down to the hospital in the evening, then back down again picking her up at 06:30, then back home, then to work. Friday night I organised with my father in law to go and drop off the van and get a hire car, and literally while I was on the way there, I realised I didn't have a license, and therefore couldn't rent a car. Fortunately, after some thought, I realised I had an old license after I lost my wallet on the firetruck, but later found it. I was able to use this to finally rent a car. (This also involved several hours again of bullshit on the phone, and it turns out I needed to make a $200 cash bond, because I couldn't use my wife's credit card).
The policeman who originally found it noted he had called me in the report, but he hadn't, and the lady at the yard who was supposed to call me back didn't so I still don't know what happened to it. The only person I have spoken to who has seen the car was the fingerprint tech, who didn't notice anything. I don't know how much, if any of my stuff is left in the car (I carry a bag for emergencies, the child seat, and my wallet with all my cards in it. I also had $400 in cash in my wallet, which I assume is certainly gone).
So I'll find out what's going on there tomorrow. It's only insured for 4.8k (which is about what it's worth), but there's a much better market at 8-10k, and I hate being forced into it and the whole thing is infuriating. I've never wished as much violence on someone as I have for the unmitigated cunts that stole my car.
... anyway back to your regularly scheduled liberty posting, today I removed the oil pan
That's some serious carnage.
My STi lateral arms also arrived:
And my autoglym leather cleaner and balm arrived, I tried it out on my steering wheel with a toothbrush, and it looks pretty damn good!
My turbo also got a clean bill of health, and is for sale, I'll post up a thread in due course.
I've also started a list of stuff I need to get done, I think I'm going to focus on the interior first, and get all that done, or at least close to, before doing the engine, so that I can be inspired by sitting in it - at the moment I have half the dash apart, and the rear seat out while I wait for the 340LPH pump to arrive. (Thanks Jackson
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When the pump does arrive, I'll pump out the remaining E85, it's been sitting too long. When the time comes I'll get some more.
